My trip
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, the Madonna Inn was top of my list of California landmarks to visit. The phrases, “themed rooms”, “everything is pink”, “champagne cake” and “top 10 bathroom in the world to visit” kept cropping up and I knew I had to see the Madonna Inn for myself. (….also that Katy Perry has dinner there.) Notably, earlier this year the L.A times voted the Madonna …
Are you ready to hear about more amazing places in South Africa besides Cape Town and Johannesburg?
You might not have heard of a small town called Jeffrey’s Bay before, but prepare yourself to fall in love with another South African city. This warning especially applies to people who love the beach, surfing and relaxing.
Jeffrey’s Bay is situated an hour drive away from Port Elisabeth, which is one of the bigger …
I once spent a year living in Iceland and I quickly came to learn a couple of special things about this place:
in winter most walkways are ice-free due to intelligent piping
the country’s culinary specialty is rotten shark which instead of chewing is swallowed down with Brennivín (really strong alcohol)
the consumption of Coca Cola per capita is higher than in the US
knitting and partying compete for the title of „Most Popular …
Scratch planes, trains, buses and bikes – when it comes to my favorite mode of transportation on a trip it’s a car. Not just any car of course, but the one that will be a steady companion throughout your journey. I am talking about: the road trip.
Many of my fondest travel memories include epic road trips through Italy, down the California Coast, from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas and …
I have never been on a cruise. Actually, that’s not entirely true, I’ve done loads of boat trips. I cruised down countless rivers, the odd sea and one time I even spent 5 straight days and nights on a boat from Manaus to Belem in Brazil, sleeping in hammocks and spending the day drinking beers and tanning on the roof top. I’ve just never been on an actual cruise ship, …
The scooters, mopeds and motorbikes of Vietnam are interesting. Definitely an experience… Scooters are in sheer abundance on the roads of Vietnam. There’s an estimated 3.1 million in the capital city of Ho Chi Minh (also known as Saigon) and the streets are crammed full of the buzzing two-wheelers. The roads are a semi-organised chaos with manic overtaking, swerving, frantic last minute turns, zigzagging… ploughing through it on the back …
Anybody who doesn’t believe travel changes you – mostly and hopefully for the better – is probably reading the wrong website. I know that travel changes you. I think you do too.
Here’s one interesting way that travel changed me.
Back in 1999, a family holiday to Naples, Italy, when I was an often moody, always day-dreaming seventeen year old changed the course of my life. It persuaded me to start studying …
Is there another extremely cool city in Sweden besides Stockholm?
Yes. it’s Malmö.
I used to live in this extremely cool city for a couple of months last year and absolutely fell in love with the easygoing and environmentally friendly atmosphere. Malmö has a variety of cultures all together living in the small community. Students come from all over the world to study in the big universities just next to the city. Malmö is …
Finnish people are always positively surprised to see tourists during a cold winter time. They needn’t be though, the country is a beautiful snowy wonderland with unusual things to try and see.
I went to visit my hometown of Helsinki at the end of winter, and the city was happy and brimming with life. The sun was shining, and there was snow glistening beautifully all over the place.
Plenty of people were …
Snowboarding in Norway is good.
No, really it is.
I never thought I’d type that sentence after ten years snowboarding in the Alps and only in the Alps, but yes, snowboarding in Norway is good.
Now I know what you’re thinking, you don’t believe me, so allow me to answer some of your questions.
Where did you go?
We spent five days in Hafjell as part of an extended tour of Nordic Europe. Hafjell is …
